PTI Make It Monday - Creating With Stripes

Today's card is for the Papertrey Ink Make It Monday challenge - Creating With Stripes.  Lori's video showed some really creative ways to use stripes on your projects.  For my stripe I used the PTI stamp set called Ombre Builders.  I added a red ribbon to add a little pop to the stripe.  The flowers are from the PTI Brushed Blooms set and the sentiment is from the PTI Just The Ticket.  This is a great set when you need just a small sentiment.  To shake things up a little bit I stamped on Kraft card stock.

For the inside I used the Printworks stamp Wishing You Everything.

Have a great day...

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - No Designer Paper

I love using patterned papers with my cards, so it really was a challenge to make a card this week for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - No Designer Papers.  I wanted my card to have the depth & dimension pattern papers can give to a card.  So first I ran a sheet of white card stock through my Big Shot using the Stampin Up Textured Impressions Stripes embossing folder.  I layered that on some Rose Red card stock to match my stamped flowers.  Using the Papertrey Ink Quilted Spring dies & stamps I die cut the quilted square, stamped it and placed it on a piece of white card stock that was stamped with a script background stamp from Indadinkado called Letter.  The flowers were die cut & stamped with the same PTI set.  The "happy birthday" was die cut using the dies from Penny Black called Celebrations.  I die cut 3 sets and layered them together.  Here is my card for this week's challenge.

 For the inside I used a stamp from Printworks called Little Treasures.

Have a great day...

Stamping Bella Wedding Card

My niece had asked me to make a wedding card that she is going to in November.  So I pulled out one of my favorite stamp sets for weddings from Stamping Bella from the Uptown Couple series called Brett & Brenda Get Married.  This is a really large stamp, so I only colored up the top half for my card.  The papers were from My Mind's Eye Love Me 6x6 pack.    Not your conventional colors, but I think it works.  The "celebrate" was die cut using Penny Black's die cuts called Celebrations. 

 I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Die Crazy
Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 9/15 - 9/21

I'm giving my niece the card today and of course it was cloudy, so the pics are not the best.  Also, for some reason my red doesn't film real well either.  This is actually SU's Cherry Cobbler.

Here is the inside.

Have a great weekend!

Papertrey Ink Create With Us Release Week

Papertrey Ink has just released their new products for the September release, so they are having a create with us challenge.  The idea is to take inspiration from the different projects the design team has come up with be it a technique or color combo - whatever really grabs you.  For my card I took inspiration from a card that Maile Belles did.  Click HERE to link up to Maile's card.  What caught my eye was how she used the PTI Angle Horizontal Split Die and the stamped image.  So with that in mind I did the same layout only using the PTI Curved Horizontal Die and the Harvest Berries Stamp set.  The sentiment was from the Hero Arts stamp set called With Sympathy.  I was able to curve it a bit when I stamped it.  

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Papertrey Ink - Create With Us

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Die Crazy

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 9/15 - 9/21

Here is the inside.

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Art Impressions Challenge - Cut Out Your Cards

The challenge for the next two weeks at the Art Impressions blog is Cut Out Your Cards.  For my card I used the AI Tri-Fold set called Garden TF.  This was the first Tri-Fold card that I had done, so it took a little figuring out to come up with the end result.  I ended up making the tri-fold card with black card stock.  I then stamped & colored each image with Copics.  I trimmed them down, adhered them to the black cardstock and them trimmed the the black card leaving a slight edge.  I then mounted the card on a piece of 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 piece of black cardstock.  The band was made using some ribbon, die cuts and a very old SU stamp set.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Art Impressions Challenge 168 - Cut Out Your Cards
WordArt Wednesday Challenge 200 - Let's Celebrate
Simon Says Stamptember Challenge & Blog Hop - Use a Stamp 

Have a great day...

Simon Says STAMPtember Use Any Stamp Challenge & Blog Hop

Over at the Simon Says Stamp blog they are celebrating STAMPtember with a blog hop & Use A Stamp challenge.  The design team has some really great cards using some of Simon's new products and there are prizes to be won at the different stops.  There are some dies that are going on my wish list!  For today's card I pulled out a Whipper Snapper Designs stamp called Moo"d Swing.  I really love their whimsical images and it was quick to color with my Copics.  The background was created using a cutting plate from Taylored Expressions called Ray Of Sunshine using papers from CratePaper called Farmhouse.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Use A Stamp
Through The Craft Room Door - Anything Goes 9/8 - 9/14
Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes Birthday Card

 I didn't have a lot of room for the sentiment, which was computer generated plus the background is rather busy, so I added it to the inside of my card.  The corners were done using a very old photo corner punch from Stampin Up.

Hope you have a great day...

More Birthday Cards

I have two more really simple birthday cards.  Both were made using the Papertrey Ink's Sentiment Splits Curve Vertical Dies and the coordinating sentiments stamps.  For the first card I used both the upper & lower dies and used papers from My Minds Eye Moments paper collection.  The second card I used only the top die and stamped the lower portion using stamps from Hot Off The Press called Stamped Stitches.  I saw a somewhat similar card on the internet, but that was a while ago and I can't remember the site, so I can't link up to it.  Both of these cards are so simple you can make them in minutes!

  

 

   

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